‘Buying Babies’ from Kazakhstan

Would you give tens of thousands of dollars to adopt a baby? Many Canadians do, in the murky, unregulated world of international adoption. Meet a single, 28-year-old Winnipegger as she spends $41,000 in fees and expenses to journey to Kazakhstan in a heart-breaking attempt to become an adoptive mother.

The public outcry from this TV documentary prompted the Canadian immigration and foreign affairs departments to conduct a review of all of Canada’s international adoptions with Kazakhstan.